Species Diversity in Space and Time

Rosenzweig, Michael L.

Cambridge University Press（1995/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 460 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521499521
• DDC分類 574.5

Full Description

Why do larger areas have more species? What makes diversity so high near the equator? Has the number of species grown during the past 600 million years? Does habitat diversity support species diversity, or is it the other way around? What reduces diversity in ecologically productive places? At what scales of space and time do diversity patterns hold? Do the mechanisms that produce them vary with scale? This book examines these questions and many others, by employing both theory and data in the search for answers. Surprisingly, many of the questions have reasonably likely answers. By identifying these, attention can be turned toward life's many, still-unexplained diversity patterns. As evolutionary ecologists race to understand biodiversity before it is too late, this book will help set the agenda for diversity research into the next century.

Contents

Preface; 1. The road ahead; 2. Patterns in space; 3. Temporal patterns; 4. Dimensionless patterns; 5. Speciation; 6. Extinction; 7. Evolution of the relationship between habitat diversity and species diversity; 8. Species-area curves in ecological time; 9. Species-area curves in evolutionary time; 10. Paleobiological patterns; 11. Other patterns with dynamic roots; 12. Energy flow and diversity; 13. A hierarchical dynamic puzzle; References; Index.